Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-06

To the chrk little tune as it mellery COWS,
Out inter the air like short-metered erhyme.
1hoe an listen m listen m hoe;
That bir,i in the willer a-pippin' away
Make my worries 60 fast, an my pleasures 60
slow,
M the sun ter shine clear the cloudiest day.
Et's mighty small suppose fer ter make
man ter feel happy folks most like may
think,
But fer me ter be cheerful. ct don't allus take
More the cat-bird sing n, cheewink, Chez
wink!
q. B. McMAxus.
QUALITY CT CEREALS.
In the current number of Agricul-
tural Science is an interesting paper by
Clifford Richardson, giving some gen.
Civilizations concerning the varying
quality of the grains raised in different
parts of the country. We have no
space for the conclusion drawn, but
some of the facts have great interest.
Analysis shows that the country may
be divided into several sections, each of
which produces wheat of a particular
character.
The Atlantic slope produces wheat
OF medium size, and with less than the
average amount of heterogeneous con-
stituents. In this part of the country,
latitude seems to exert as whole a
minor influence. In the central states,
including Tennessee, Kentucky, Ar
kansas and the adjacent states, the
grain is somewhat larger and contains
more nitrogen. In the Northwest a
grain is harvested richer in nitrogen.
and smaller than in any other part of
the country. In Colorado, where irriga-
ton is practiced, on the virgin prairie
soil large grain is grown which at the
same time is rich in nitrogen, while in
the Northwestern slopes of the Pacific
coast the wheat is large but extremely
starchy, and contains less nitrogen than
that found anywhere else. The speci-
mems from Minnesota and Dakota have
for five successive seasons sustained the
reputation of the Northwest for grow
ing the richest wheat we have in al
buminoids.
The wheat from different parts of
the country are in many cases as strik-
ingly different il appearance as in
other qualities, so that it is very easy
among wheats from Colorado, Oregon
and Dakota to say at a glance what the
source of any or all was. Noticing
this fact the question arose how far the
peculiarities are fixed for any locality
from year to year, and how far modi-
6cations would be produced by change
from one to the other.
There are in the collection of wheats
four specimens which strikingly illus
trate the point alluded to. They con-
sist of soft. plump, yellow wheat
from Oregon, small, hard, red vari-
ETY. from Minnesota, which are as
extreme in appearance as any that
have ever been seen, and the same
wheats grown for three years On the
soil of Colorado from seed from the two
sources. The two latter specimens,
while distinguishable. have approached
each other SO fast in character as to
have had their great difference in ap-
pearance vanish and to possess more
the peculiarities of Colorado grain than
those of the countries from which they
came. The effect of changed condi-
tons has been most marked and con-
vincing.
ROOTS FOR WINTER FEED.
found out long ago the value of
roots for Winter feeding of cattle.
When fed dry hay and stalks the cat
tie would tnrn up at the end of long
winter dull and constipated. When
they got to the pasture they wonld
scour SO that it was week or so before
they did good work. When I fed roots
right alon e they kept in better condi-
ton They did not turn up in Spring
gnawing boards and old wood or bones
as I have known plenty of cattle to do.
Men who work in the pine woods often
come out in the Spring dull and heavy.
Their work in the open air ought to
leave themin fine conditionIbut the steady
diet OF fried pork, beans and bread,
without fruit or many vegetables, throws
the system off the track. It seems to
me that this is the condition that cattle
get into after long Winter on straw,
stalks and other dry feeds. They may
look fat and hearty, but their food does
not do them the good it ought to. Roots
and silage keep cattle in fine trim. To
my mind they are to be classed as foods
about with fruits and canned vegetables
in the Winter diet of man. Correspond
ent Rural New Yorker. g
- RAISING CALVES FOR THE DAIRY.
2s 1 occasionally see plan of calf rails
ing On skinned milk in the agricultural
and dairy papers, giving various pro-
cesses, as if it we're quite q difficult mat
Ter. I give Ton my own way, simple
aspossible and quite successful. When
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